As much as it pains me to say it, I feel that until the Lions get respectable, they should lose their annual home game on Thanksgiving. I am so tired of watching this team get embarrassed every year as my family gathers for the holiday. It's just ridiculous. This team is no good and NFL fans should not have to be subjected to watching this filth year after year. I would much rather watch a marquee match up such as the Steelers vs. Ravens or Colts vs. Patriots.
I do love the tradition, and I would not even think about arguing this point if the Lions where at all competitive. But they are not. In fact they are awful. They have won just one out of the last nine games they have played on Thanksgiving.
They haven't won since 2003. Usually they get blown out and the game is over before the fourth quarter. It is just brutal to watch.
What I propose is that the Lions be put on a probationary period where they don't get the game back until they win at least six games for three straight years. But this will never happen. The Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr. is way to much of a factor when it comes to NFL advertising. The Ford Automotive Co. is the NFL's biggest advertiser, giving Ford the power to keep the tradition. So it goes, the Lions will keep playing nationally televised games on Thanksgiving and will most likely keep embarrassing themselves and the desperate Lions fans, for all the world to see.
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